53 Quotes by David Antin

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It’s hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I’m standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I’m happy to see them go.

I’m not sure what theory is, unless it’s the pursuit of fundamental questions.

It’s hard being a hostage in somebody else’s mouth – or a character in somebody else’s novel.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn’t follow a continuous path.

While I’ve had a great distaste for what’s usually called song in modern poetry or for what’s usually called music, I really don’t think of speech as so far from song.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman’s idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman’s idea of the real.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I’m doing. I don’t give a damn if half the audience walks out.